Memory Restart is an open-source Firefox add-on that allows you to quickly restart Firefox if memory usage is too high. Firefox users can see the memory usage in the add-on bar or the toolbar tool-tip. If memory usage reaches a certain threshold, the add-on bar display and the toolbar icon will turn red. You can quickly restart Firefox at any time by clicking on the add-on bar display or the toolbar icon.
The memory threshold and add-on bar text colors are customizable. There is also an auto restart feature.

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I tried this extension in Ubuntu and found that Firefox consumed far more memory after the extension was installed. So I tried it using Windows 7 with the same result. It is now well and truly uninstalled.

I can confer with Ferdinand.
I have always had problems with Firefox streaming my 20 cameras through Zoneminder from my server. Invariably the whole machine would lock up within 2-3 minutes because Firefox was using up 90%+ of my 4gb RAM. I have just installed Firefox 7.0a2 and I have been streaming the cameras now for about 20 mins and Firefox is only using up 240mb. If this is any indication of where they are heading, then I think they have cured one of Firefox’s largest issues – memory hogging.